Next season design

I descovered early this season that i wasn't going to end up at the top spots in the league. I therefor decided to focus my design developement to maximize next season performance. At this point my next season performance was at 7 % for all my components.

I put the design emphasis to next season only and the only upgrade i did for this season was by spying on my opponents. Now after a few days the performance varies from 21 to 7 %. The components i let spy on was the ones least developed.

My question is; does the high "this season"-performance that i got from spying, influence the developement for next season components?

Yes it does. High % part for this season nerfs the development of the next season's part

As far as I can say: What you spy is sadly completely worthless for next season. Means: Your designers won't learn the tiniest bit from it.

Crap...that's just weird! So now i've screwed up both this and next season... :/

i noticed that if i put all my effort in to researching next seasons part i get a smaller gain for next season than if i go all out for this season...  hope that makes sense??!!